GTAC’s mission is to bring expertise to the global marketplace through conferences, workshops, technical assistance, spatial data warehousing, idea incubation, and spatial information and knowledge management.

Every day, geography plays a big role—often the deciding role—in policy making and business planning. That is why an increasing number of decision makers in government and business are relying on geographic information systems to help them analyze demographics, address land-management issues and identify population trends. In fact, the applications for geographic technology know no boundaries.